Vou para um festival de música na europa mês que vem de duração de 04 dias. Eu tenho alguns tênis (All star Run, Rebook Zig Encore), mas tenho medo de que eles não aguentem os 4 dias de festival tranquilamente. Digo porque já usei muito all-star em rave, e chega um momento que o pé começa a arregar. Cada dia tem ~10-12 horas de festival.

No aliexpress diretamente da loja oficial da Li ning, ele tá 232 reais com impostos inclusos. É um bom tênis? Eu deveria pegar ele, ou um Chunta?
Ou economizar e ir de Zig encore?

Please test my Vehicle Tracking app, and I'll test yours back!

Hello, this is my app. I'm creating a vehicle tracking app for my state (São Paulo - BR), and I only need 14 testers to open the app every day. If you test mine, I'll test yours!

Since the app depends on a vehicle tracker (which I will sell), I only ask that you download and open the app, thank you!

Group: https://groups.google.com/g/patrickbasepecas
Link Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trackbase.mobile
Link Web: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.trackbase.mobile

If you post a screenshot of the app in the comments, I'll test yours back!

Recently, I bought a Vivo X100 Ultra, and this experience really changed the way I see the flagship smartphone market.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been very attached to technology. On my Tectoy tablet, I used to follow every possible news story about phone launches, tablets and basically any tech release through Flipboard. Back then, my dream phone was an iPhone. And then, at some point, I got an iPhone 4s, cracked, which used to belong to my brother. Man, that phone was a beast. It could run pretty much anything, had a camera that I considered really good for its time, and a body with a truly premium design. Until one day, after a few drops, it finally broke for good.

After that, I inherited a Samsung Galaxy S3 from my mother, and it was an excellent phone for a long time. Then I had a Moto G5s, which lasted around five years in my hands before simply dying, basically from age. Then came my first phone that felt closer to a flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE. It had insanely good cameras, an elegant body and a flat display, but it heated up like crazy, so I ended up returning it. After that, I bought a 3rd-generation iPhone SE, followed by an iPhone 15. For me, going back to an iPhone was a very satisfying experience because of the video quality, the photos and the overall smoothness of iOS. At the same time, it also felt suffocating not being able to install an APK, customize certain things or simply use the phone with more freedom.

In 2024, I ended up buying a Galaxy S23, which lasted until this year, just a few weeks ago. In fact, it still works. The cameras are insane, the performance is great and I think it was one of the best smartphones Samsung has ever made. It fixed the S22’s temperature issues, improved the design and delivered a very solid experience. But the battery is simply horrible. After two years, without heavy use, the battery health ended up at 76%.

Well, a few weeks ago I decided it was time to change phones, and I wanted a device with the prospect of lasting at least five years, just like my Moto G5s did. I was choosing between the Galaxy S25 Ultra, the iPhone 15 Pro and the Vivo X100 Ultra. The last one made me very hesitant, especially because I only found used options in the country where I live. Even so, I decided to take the risk.

And honestly: WTF. What an incredible phone.

Of course, its interface is not as good as Samsung’s, nor as polished as Apple’s. But for me, it is more than enough. The screen is excellent, the performance is absurd, the build quality feels great and the cameras are simply monstrous. I have never seen anything like it in my entire life, whether on iPhones, Samsungs or any other Android phone I have ever used.

Since I live in Brazil, the flagship phones you usually see around are iPhones, Galaxy S models and Galaxy Flip devices, oddly enough. So it is normal for brands like Vivo, Oppo, Honor or Xiaomi Ultra to still feel a bit distant or even unreliable to many people. But my experience with the Vivo X100 Ultra completely broke that perception for me.

It beats every smartphone I have ever used by a mile. Even during the time I used the iPhone 16 Pro Max, its camera did not come close to the Vivo’s camera system. The feeling is that Vivo is many steps ahead, especially in photography. It feels like it is in another category entirely.

I wrote this text because we often get stuck with stigmas around brands that fall outside what we are used to. In Brazil, it is very easy to fall into the idea that a “real” flagship means only an iPhone or a Samsung. I thought that way myself for a long time. But today, after this experience, I do not even think about going back to Samsung or investing in Apple again. I plan to sell my Galaxy Watch6 Classic and buy earbuds from another brand, since I was coming from a Galaxy Buds2. I want to detach myself a bit from this ecosystem and explore other brands with more freedom.

Thank you, Vivo. You definitely surprised me and, at least in my experience, delivered the best smartphone I have ever used.